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During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
A young agent in the publishing business wheels and deals his way up the ladder, stepping on a few too many toes along the way.
Madame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.
An elderly woman remembers back to a time in her youth when she was pursued by two gentlemen.
A story about psychological breakdown and recovery
A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.
The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with the dream of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling around the world, proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid but later discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play
When a young American inherits a house in London, he travels back in time to the Revolutionary War and encounters his ancestors.
Victor Karenin is devastated when his fiancée Lisa leaves him for Fedya but is happily surprised when Fedya falls for a young reckless gypsy girl.
Five refugees vie for a seat on a flight to escape a Communist occupied Britain.
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics
When his boss, a corrupt politician, is accused of murder, a man hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.
A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. The restless spirit of a dead man enters the body of the woman he was pledged to marry.
A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.
"Smoke" is the story of European community roots and changes, reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals who find philosophies diverging.
A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer, and meets the girl of his dreams.
A handsome doctor becomes the object of affection of several of his female patients, young and old alike.
Kyra Zelas is a very unusual girl, the doctor diagnoses her as being in the final stages of tuberculosis, when young Dr. Scott gives her an untested injection which miraculously heals her, leaving everyone surprised.
The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy
A mentally disturbed woman tries to lead a normal life.
A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.
A war artist, Dick Helder, follows the British army into battle and experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
Two weeks after its maiden voyage on May 13, 1941, the battleship Bismarck was spotted, torpedoed and sunk by the British in the North Atlantic. This was a crucial point in World War II for the Germans, taking more than 2,000 lives.
A literary agent seeks to represent the author of a sensational new screenplay and is surprised to find out that the author is only nine years old.
A woman fears her late husband Connor has returned to haunt her.
A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.
Story of a crippled medical student's romance with a heartless waitress in 1910 Paris.
At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.
A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
A nanny of special talents is hired by George Banks, an old-fashioned London banker who is trying to raise his two naughty children.
An English home for the blind is disrupted by a visiting scientist who supposedly has a miracle discovery for curing specific cases of blindness.
Set in the French Riviera, this romantic love triangle occurs when the daughter of a wealthy Parisian widower vacations at the villa.
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
A widow named Mrs. Marsan lives in an apartment complex and pries into her neighbors' personal affairs. She is happiest when unsuspecting lovers argue and she can focus her opera glasses on them. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity.
A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit.
The story of a minister whose church is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery and who desires to build a new house of worship in a better place.
A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
A clerk fantasizes himself as a young freckled faced vital boy unlike his present persona, a pale and pulseless man and has the boy in him stir to life the courage to tell his boss off and ask his girl to marry him.
An American surgeon falls in love with a flighty British actress.
A wounded robber hands his loot to Jasper Hornby before dying. The rest of his gang begins a door-to-door search for the money.
A reporter for a major newspaper and his wife divorce. The court awards custody of their child to the wife.
Peter Decker returns from the American Civil War with a grudge against his neighbor, an army brigade troop leader. The showdown takes place according to the rules of the Wild West, where guns settled all conflicts but those rules are slowly being replace by civilization, and the rule of law.
A freighter captain agrees to take on an innocent looking passenger who proves to be a fountain of evil and impossible to get rid of.
Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.
Janice Morel is an aging actress who works in a run-down nightclub. One night she's discovered naked in her hotel room, knifed to death.
A man falls in lust with another, abandoning his beloved Gemma in favor of a fling. Unhappy and unfulfilled with his decision he seeks out his beloved Gemma once again.
Gulley Jimson, a poor antisocial painter just out of jail, tries to convince people to pay him for paintings they didn't actually commission.
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Camilla feels lonely and insecure that her husband is more interested in painting than spending time with her. Camilla steps into an unlikely affair with Richard Elton, a dangerous liar.
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
A hard-boiled private eye receives a call from a small-town policeman who suspects an auto accident which involves the daughter of a prominent citizen is connected with the finding of the body of a young girl in the river.
The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.
A modern dress version of the Shakespeare classic
A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."
The murder of a boarding house lodger is investigated.
Orphaned at a young age, George, one of twelve siblings went to live with his grandmother, a woman with tremendous spirit and natural dignity in the wild west, which inspired George to become a writer of those less fortunate.
A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."
A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.
A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer
A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.
The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.
A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
A woman has a clandestine meeting with a man, other than her husband and uncovers some murder evidence that will prevent an innocent man from going to prison. The woman's husband is the assistant district attorney who is trying to send the innocent man to prison.
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
Story about submariners
The story of young love and family pride.
After the death of Persis Bradford, both her son Francis and her second husband Alan are left with the cold empty life which leaves them to deal with their grief in an even colder atmosphere.
Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.
A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.
An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them
Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.
While Curt Bridges tracks down the panther that killed his brother Arthur, his family argues and bickers over whether younger brother Harold should marry a much-despised neighbor girl.
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
Pops Thatcher, an elderly resident of a rundown county poor farm, is appointed to the town council. His battle to save the farm exposes the corruption on the council and breaths new life into the local newspaper.
A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
When Lucy and Barkley Cooper summon their grown children to announce that the bank has foreclosed the mortgage on their house, they are sure the children will provide a remedy.
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
A bored debutante decides to become a cook, because she once took a French cuisine class. What ensues is a comedic "Upstairs, Downstairs" tale between the wealthy upper class and the servants.
A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.
In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.
A sea captain returns home to post-war Germany to find it in ruins, his shell-shocked fiancee missing a leg. When a lovely Latvian refugee stows away on his ship, he decides to help her.
A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.
A young barrister forsakes his love to marry success but later discovers his former sweetheart has become a most influential figure, more powerful than his own father-in-law.
A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life.
The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.
A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers. They are a farmer, a scholar and a Communist fighter respectively. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit.
A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.
A young wife becomes infatuated with another man while her husband is overseas and her father tries to save her by bringing her supposedly dead mother out of obscurity.
A detective's investigation into a bookie's death and the missing $25,000 in cash, leads him to a corrupt cop thanks to a witness.
Updating of the Shakespearean play from Roman time to Fascist Italy.
Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
A grieving father must try and get his son over his wife's death. He swears that he talks to his mother all the time.
A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the lady of the house.
The cops, his girlfriend and his gang members are wondering why Vanning won't leave his room, especially since he's sitting on $300,000.
On their silver wedding day, Ashurst and his wife are on their way to Torquay for the festival when they stop at the moor where they had first met.
A jazz musician realizes that he is doing exactly what he wanted to avoid at all costs, making an impact with his music.
When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place.
A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached.
A meek bank clerk suffers a blow on the head during a robbery and begins to show significant changes in his mode of life and personality.
A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country.
British sleuth Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests. Wait a minute, Mr. Mummery just hired a new cook!
A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences.
Two sisters move to a remote village in France to work for a retired English clergyman and his wife. They soon discover that there is an evil that pervades the home and attempt to overcome the evil that faces them.
The story deals with the heroic efforts of nearly 40 years ago of Charles Seymour Whitman, New York County district attorney, to suppress attempts by gambling elements to gain control of city government. Whitman's prosecution of Police Lt. Becker after the officer was found to be implicated in the 1913 assassination of gambling boss Herman Rosenthal.
The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed!
A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.
A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during The Revolutionary War.
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.
A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.
P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
The friend of a pleasant minister has invented a camera that takes a strange kind of photo, and with it, he plans to put Germany in a position to rule the world.
When Sara's father goes off to fight in the First World War, she is sent to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, an expensive and elite school. However, when her father is feared dead, she is relegated to menial duties.
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning.
The story of the infamous John M. Dunn's rise and fall as a notorious gangster on New York's Waterfront from 1934 to 1949.
Andrew Dynes, suffers from nearly every frustration a male can be expected to harbor. Bullied at his underpaid job, no longer in love with his wife but lacking strength to tell her, Dynes finds solace with a woman 20 years younger.
The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters
The story of young, talented ballet dancers
The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.
Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his 'Rags to Riches' life.
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.
An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.
A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.
Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances
A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.
Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.
The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.
In the Middle East, Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure, gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room during an important conference, which an underground organization is planning to sabotage.
Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Lincoln
A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
A man jeopardizes his marriage by wanting to marry another woman. When he changes his mind, it's too late because now his wife wants to marry another man.
An air liner flying over a middle eastern desert is forced to land in a remote spot and the passengers locked up. All are Americans or Britons. A man from the U.S. Embassay is interrogated and threatened unless he convinces another prisoner, an oil company executive, to collaborate with a new (unsaid but implied Soviet) regime.
A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a beautiful but neurotic young woman fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her nurse discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final desperate act of revenge.
An irascible curator of a rare book collection plans the destruction of a rival professor whose research had discredited some of his most cherished theories 20 years before.
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.
A bizarre plot falls apart at the seams because of a trip through a subway. Seems that the plotters are riding on the 1,000,000th car to drive through the tunnel and thus their plot is uncovered as officials seek to honor them.
A touring concert party named 'The Dinky Doos' are stranded in Rawsley because their manager has absconded with the funds and the lady pianist.
A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.
The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.
The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child.
Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
Professor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
A man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
A young man on parole after seven years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate. While his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
Julia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.
A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.
A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
After the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked.
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
Tommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
A young man is at the wrong place at the wrong time during a drug store robbery.
The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.
A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
An adaptation of the dystopic novel concerning one man's rebellion against a totalitarian society
Twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney wants a dog for Christmas and gives hints when he buys his dad a dog collar for Christmas and his mom a bowl just the right size for dog food.
Opera diva Marcia Vernon loses her voice. Though Mark, her irresponsible husband, and Carol, her secretary, are both devoted to her, they otherwise oppose each other. Marica's surgery and the aftermath bring surprising revelations to all three.
A wealthy 70-year-old woman believes money can do everything, especially if one has as much as 70 million, the estimated fortune of Jenny Pratt. Piano tuner Jack O'Hara comes to Mrs. Pratt's home to tune her piano and finds himself living in her mansion, seven hours of daily piano practice for a year.
Captain Miles reads the pathetic appeals of his buddy to his young wife back home that she write to him. Miles finds himself hating the unknown woman, until he has the opportunity to meet her and discover the trouble.
A weak man masquerades as a hero in a Latin American republic.
A double murder has taken place at the cottage of the Merrymans. When they arrive at their cottage, they are bombarded by inquisitive neighbors about what transpired to their former tenants.
A modern dress adaptation of the classic story of a terminally ill prostitute who falls in love with a man of means.
A priest working the Mission Church on Bowdoin Street in Boston is threatened with condemnation. The church is in such disrepair and with no funds to rebuild, the situation is hopeless. The Mission affects the lives of everyone in the neighborhood, even garage mechanic Johnny and his wife Jebby as well as the wealthy Lydia Brunall all come to see Father Ferris.
An old cowboy makes his living riding in a Wild West show and reminisces on the days when he fought side-by-side with Buffalo Bill Cody.
The story about how the success of Axelrod's play ""The Seven Year Itch"" affected him
The heroic story of Captain Robert I. Olsen aboard the Angler, a submarine that rescued 135 people through heavily mined waters.
A spoiled rich girl matures into a lovely lady when she learns compassion and tenderness from three loves.
A modernized musical of the classic story
A small group of people in Belgium try to safeguard a painting of the Nativity from Nazi plundering.
A Brooklyn bus driver drives off to Miami in a city bus and is apprehended by the police.
A group of school children perform what appears to be a play, but it progresses into a trial when the school janitor is accused of murder.
An unemployed writer working as a press agent for an American dress designer in Italy becomes innocently involved in smuggling. [RF]
An accountant meets an aged millionaire, who appoints him executor of a trust fund for the millionaire's dog, Shaftsbury.
A war orphan is smuggled into the U.S. by a pilot.
The writer of murder mysteries acts out the crimes before putting them to paper. There's a real plot twist when a dead man turns up in her house.
An anonymous letter writer creates fear and havoc in the lives of three sisters.
A former child star disappears during a Broadway play.
A young married couple live in a New York neighborhood and share a babysitter and maid of all work with another couple. When this paragon of domesticity decides to wed the two husbands are hard put to break up the romance.
A writer's undercover assignment backfires when he cannot produce the evidence needed to free himself from jail.
Neighbors attempt to run a respected citizen out of town when they learn he is a former convict.
A story about Russian emigrants
Paul realizes that his beautiful new wife is more interested in his belongings than she is in him.
Parolees in war service decide to escape on the night of V-J Day rather than return home.
A successful businessman's achievements aren't enough as he drives himself for a higher more powerful position.
When scandal and financial ruin threaten newspaper tycoon Frank Leslie, his wife Miriam uses cunning and imagination to restore her husband's reputation.
A 9-year-old boy and his misunderstanding father come under close scrutiny as the drama delves into the deeper corners of a frightened boy's mind to search out the reasons for his fears. The story unravels a strong mood and mystery which centers around Romney.
Opposed to communism and Nazi rule during World War II, the Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty was imprisoned as an enemy of the state and sent to prison. During his trial it was revealed that his confession was obtained by torture, hypnosis and drugs.
Two young women are found murdered in a small California town. A district attorney finds himself in a dilemma when he finds his daughter daring the man who is the prime suspect in the homicide case.
A man and woman meet in town after both had been arguing with their respective spouses back home. They decide to team up and make a big day of it.
A diplomatic attache of a military state is ordered by his government to kill a suspected spy. The government then arrests him for murder. The attache is torn between two "Gods": the decrees of his country and the commandments of God.
Larry Benson was reported missing on the battlefield more than three years ago and the entire town is excited about his unexpected homecoming.
Major Gaylord recounts an experience during World War II when he was obliged to fire on an American soldier in the dead of night on a Pacific island.
A couple start receiving mysterious letters with hints on how to make money. They watch the accuracy of the advice, which is always perfect, then sell everything to follow a "hot tip."
A man searches for the truth that may save another man's life in a Western showdown.
Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
A reclusive man has troubles with a greedy gas meter man who thinks there is money hidden in the old apartment.
The case began with the impending marriage in Paris of the American ambassador's daughter to one of his attaches. Suddenly, a young woman appears professing to be the secret love of the attache. The young diplomat sets out to prove that he has never seen the intruder before.
A girl returns to her hometown after failing to find stardom on Broadway. She finds herself growing bitter, avoiding her friends until she meets a drama coach at a nearby University who changes her life around.
A former Big League pitcher disappears from the fields after one of his pitches fatally injures a player. The pitcher turns gambler but a boy causes him to reform himself.
The story of a typical American family and what happens when the parental generation yields to the typical yen of young folks in moderate circumstances to "get away from it all."
A man searches for his missing fiancée following a shipboard romance.
During a storm in the Scottish moors at the House of Gair, a writer and his rich aunt become involved with a swindler which winds up in an unexpected murder.
A young pianist is ill with tuberculosis and is cured physically by a young scientist but the serum she takes causes a distortion of her mind.
An influential Washington hostess tramples ruthlessly on members of her society set to further the political career of a young lawyer.
An editor of a tiny newspaper with a circulation of eighty tries to put his small town "on the map" with an outrageous story.
After the mysterious death of his brother, a man returns from South America to investigate.
A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.
An irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults wages his personal war with the English language.
A mystery writer and his wife are searching for an isolated country home where he can work undisturbed. Instead, they meet up with an odd painter whose wife had recently died.
A young woman responds with deep devotion to her dominating father and upon his death she makes a postmortem discovery of a "secret" about him.
The life story of the famous inventor
A Paris dressmaker's model is stabbed to death during the showing of new gowns.
An arrogant gambler in Cripple Creek controls the village until a stranger comes along to usurp his powers.
When a stranger to a small town is beaten up by a locals, upright residents gather, inexplicably, against their will to the town hall. Once assembled, they find they can't leave and time has stopped. All talk about the stranger, (also present). Some express rage for his views and reveal their misguided ideas of American patriotism, which are really prejudices against freedom of thought and free speech.
A disc jockey is involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called "Let Me Go, Lover", the murderer's favorite song, of course.
Joey, a clown and leader of a traveling circus, suddenly becomes depressed when his group plays the tiny town of Millville.
After serving seven years in prison for desertion, a bitter soldier tries to start a new life.
A crusading attorney finds that there are no short cuts to justice.
A sensitive boy's relationship with his parents lacks the real understanding necessary to a happy life.
A New England Christmas story
A young art dealer visits the home of a miserly connoisseur and discovers a pretty girl as well as some very valuable paintings.
A young private investigator finds himself trapped by a web of circumstantial evidence and his name linked to that of a homicidal mugger. The tension mounts as he strives to clear himself.
Twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in 1929 Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.
A beautiful but icy singer is devoted exclusively to her art and her equally icy French officer who succumbs to her charms.
A test pilot sets out for a cruise through space and suddenly loses contact with Earth.
A sheriff travels to a rural Maine island to investigate the case of a missing young woman. While there, he learns many odd things about the place and it's inhabitants.
Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.
In a shabby western town about 1900, a stranger gets off the train, goes to the sheriff's office, and kills him. His mild-mannered son takes over his position and tries to find the killer and avenge his father's death.
Eddie Chapman was the only Briton to win the Iron Cross in World War II. But was he really working for the Germans? Or was he a highly-placed double-agent?
The brain of a billionaire who dies in an accident is kept alive and makes plans for global domination.
A "retread" Master Sergeant is called back into the service and it seems to his wife that most of their 10 years of marriage have been spent moving from base to base. When a young and lovely girl enters the picture the wife fears that love alone cannot hold her husband.
The dying words of a young woman, the victim of a hit-and-run driver, point towards stock-broker Peter Shea. He maintains his innocence, even as he's found guilty and sent to prison.
Spinster Melissa Turner is at a crossroads in life concerning her future. She must decide whether to pursue Forest, sad reclusive acquaintance or prepare for a life alone.
When a newly wed Italian bride named Dominique moves to Vermont, she suffers culture shock and is hesitant to continue her new life in the Americas.
Feeling misunderstood and unwanted by her parents, a girl decides that she must run away.
In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his home land. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.
Irene is the plain niece of an elder statesman, who comes to Washington to aid her uncle. She seems an ideal match for a bachelor senator up for re-election. But her uncle and husband-to-be don't realize just how ideal she really is!
Mr. Brimmer did not go over that seaside cliff unaided. Sinister Cousin Julian from South Africa gave Mr. Brimmer a bit of help.
In an old Louisiana plantation, the the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on the a gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, though she loves the builder.
A mild-mannered bookkeeper, belittled by his family and his coworkers, is to get his picture in the paper when he is named his company's head bookkeeper. The picture is in the paper all right, but he is mistakenly named the chairman of the city's anti-vice crusade.
The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.
A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.
A scholarly officer, who has spent his 3 years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.
An elderly man has lost touch with his son when he receives a surprise visit from his son and his wife who come for a visit. They find that a pair of parasitic drifters have moved in with the old man and are "sponging" off him.
Horace Ford longs for his childhood but it was not as idyllic as he remembers it.
He used to be a Hollywood bigwig but now Jonah Silver is a casting director at a small studio. A young woman seeking a job pays him a visit.
A young lawyer bucks public opinion in his defense of an accused killer. When the killer suspect escapes while visiting the scene of the crime with the lawyer, life becomes very unpleasant for the defender.
A mother announces on the day before her daughter's wedding that she is going to divorce her husband.
A man with a Robin Hood complex has a penchant for liquidating people whose lives he considers worthless in order to give their money to more deserving people.
A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry.
A woman is found strangled in a plush hotel room and sitting dazedly by is an ex-convict who tells police he is guilty. Flashback to ten years before when the man and woman first met and events leading up to the slaying with a tall dark stranger.
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
A pair of puppeteers seek funds for a trailer tour and do a show for a wealthy man's party with unusual results.
A young wife invites her rival to dinner and sees that her husband is still interested in the old flame. He takes the woman home and is gone for several hours. In the morning, the woman is found dead in her hallway, the victim of a fall down the stairs that could have been accidental or could have been murder.
In the early 1900s, a man who is about to take over the family investment firm finds that his father has played fast and loose with some of his clients' money.
A store owner in a small Iowa town goes to New York and meets a model. He falls in love with her and tries to figure a way to let the model continue her work and still become his wife.
A family is torn by divided and misplaced loyalties of a possessive mother who controls her two sons.
Two men trapped in a mine fear that the end is near and the one man confesses to the other about a crime that he committed. Upon their rescue, the man enters a new trap as his confidence might be exposed.
An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.
Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.
A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.
Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""
In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.
A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.
Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.
A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.
In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.
A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.
A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.
The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.
After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?
Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.
A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.
Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.
Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.
A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.
A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.
A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.
Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.
A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.
A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.
A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.
A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.
An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.
A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.
Young James Norton has just arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin his term as a freshman senator. He follows in the footsteps of his famous father, an ex-senator who considered the senate floor his arena. Norton must soon decide whether he wants to keep following in those footsteps, or beat a path of his own.
A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.
A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.
The offices of Mode, a glossy women's magazine, is thrown into chaos when the owner suddenly shows up. The editor fears for her job--but who in the office might replace her?
In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.
A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.
A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.
A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.
A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.
A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.
While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.
Luke McTrigger, proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!
A man who once played a hot trumpet in a band wants to break away from his successful law practice for a night and hear some good jazz. He and two other friends visit a nightclub and he manages to hit a "high" note of his own.
A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.
A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.
Yermo Red is a sadistic cop employed by a western railroad who delights in beating up hobos and finally kills one. The hobos want to avenge the dead man by killing Yermo. But one of them who hates violence prevails on them to try something else. He composes a song, "The Ballad of Yermo Red", which everybody up and down the railroad line begins singing.
A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.
In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.
On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.
A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.
A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.
An eccentric hobbyist inadvertently gets the original draft of the Gettysburg Address at an auction. He decides to burn the paper to bring a focus of attention on the ideals it contains but agrees to wait until after a TV debate.
A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.
The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.
A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.
This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.
When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.
Lev Simon is in the U.S. illegally. As head of an immigrant family, he realizes his error when election time comes and he can't vote.
Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl.
Laura Morgan goes with her new husband to live in his mother's cheerless house. From her husband's mother, she learns a terrible secret about his past.
A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.
A western gunman obtains a law degree while serving time in jail. When released, he hopes to aid law and justice but learns that his days of gunslinging are not over yet.
Tim Tully has reached the top as a successful comic but is ruthless behind the scenes alienating many. Then as his ratings begin to slide he finds it difficult to get anyone, especially writers, to work for him.
A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
When a young movie executive, with a distorted conception of the values and rewards of Hollywood, rejects his father as an embarrassing symbol of the past, the executive's two roommates and an exotic dancer give kindness to the bewildered old man, and in so doing, discover something important about themselves and their own need for love.
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.
During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.
Ellis is the wealthy, elder brother of the Davenport clan, who touches off a family conflict of jealousy and suspicion when he transfers his interest from one nephew to another.
A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.
A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.
A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.
Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.
A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army
A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.
A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into.
Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.
A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.
A deranged soldier has escaped from the stockade vows to do away with his former platoon sergeant and trails him to the home of a dead buddy.
A driven domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teen-age daughter. Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, Kitty faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child, Joy, a shy, attractive girl of seventeen.
Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.
An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.
Henri and Marie own a bar in a small French town. They've been successfully cheating on their taxes for years, but that's about to end. A new tax collector's in town and the he's determined to make an example of slippery couple.
A young wife is singled out as a hit-and-run driver through circumstantial evidence. Her husband desperately wages a battle to establish his wife's innocence.
A publisher claims that he can make any song a hit. Drawing songs at random out of a file, he comes across a song by a teenage girl which she wrote when her romance had ended.
Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis's parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.
A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.
Baby Herman's view of adults as seen through his crib, looking in wide-eyed amazement into the faces of the people around him. He learns very early on how to wrap them around his finger with coos and howls.
A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.
Rudy lives in a small New England town with his father. He begins to hang around a street gang called "The Eagles." These juvenile delinquents cause him problems with the law and his family. Rudy's loneliness and attempt to forget his crippled childhood turn his desperation into a new nightmare.
A classical guitarist is forced to take a job playing popular music after his son refuses to follow in his footsteps as a famous artist.
A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.
Exploration of the panic caused by the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells ""War of the Worlds.""
At a Mystery Writers of America meeting, a government agent shows up, looking for a best selling author suspected of murder.
Commander Matt Donovan, the skipper of the newly commissioned atomic submarine "Shark" whose ruthless obsession for perfection leads him to expect his men to perform with the same cold precision as the incredible nuclear machine. Donovan has no patience with human frailty and he relentlessly drives his crew to be like himself. Donovan's two young officers Lt. Bill Meade and Lt. Joe Crane are assigned to be the dedicated men working for Donovan. Meade stands in awe of the "Iron Skipper" and dreams of commanding his own sub. Crane, a brilliant engineering officer is ...
Commander Matt Donovan, the skipper of the newly commissioned atomic submarine "Shark" whose ruthless obsession for perfection leads him to expect his men to perform with the same cold precision as the incredible nuclear machine. Donovan has no patience with human frailty and he relentlessly drives his crew to be like himself. Donovan's two young officers Lt. Bill Meade and Lt. Joe Crane are assigned to be the dedicated men working for Donovan. Meade stands in awe of the "Iron Skipper" and dreams of commanding his own sub. Crane, a brilliant engineering officer is ...
A teenage student traps his Latin teacher into a compromise on grades by implying that she has made "advances" at him. Appalled and frightened by the implication that she is an immoral teacher at a private school for boys, she enlists the help of another teacher.
A man lies in a coma for over a year as a result of a car accident. His brother, knowing the situation is hopeless, decides to end his existence.
A girl has lost her hearing as a result of an emotional disturbance. Her subconscious is probed by a team of psychologists who decide to try a daring experiment.
An elderly but energetic minister retires and lives with his overly attentive son and daughter-in-law.
An important political prisoner is awaiting execution by the men who have overthrown his country's government. The night before he is to face the firing squad, he is given a choice: if he will give up fighting for his cause, he will be set free.
An eccentric old man living at a boardinghouse begins concocting these stories and everyone becomes suspicious when young girls are found dead.
A snobbish college professor finds implicated in the killing of a Latin American scholar. He finds himself hunted by a sinister ring of assassins.
A conflict develops between Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant, who attempts to introduce new methods in their pathology lab.
Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant clash over the circumstances of a premature birth and a cancer diagnosis.
A college fraternity will always help its members in later life - as long as they repay the fraternity by performing certain not-quite-legal tasks for other members.
A Canadian engineer working in England rescues a rich elderly gentleman who changes his life.
A schoolteacher gets in trouble. He is accused of having a romance in his educational dealings with his pupil. He gets trapped in a mess of circumstantial evidence.
Harry Radcliff, a young British officer, sets out alone on a dangerous secret mission. He is to travel to Berlin and gain the confidence of Soviet agents by pretending to be traitor to England. But Radcliff finds himself in serious trouble when he misses an appointment with an important enemy contact. In desperation, he seeks aid from his friend Mike Fenby of the British Diplomatic Office in Berlin.
Belinda is one of the popular bachelor girls called on when guest lists are made up for Washington, D.C. parties. But beneath her gaiety, Belinda fears a life of loneliness, for she has frightened away suitors by her eagerness to marry. Then her friend Bunny introduces Belinda to handsome Jack Marshall.
A religious widow fears that her beautiful and talented daughter may cause unrest and distrust in the small conservative Ohio community when she puts her love of art and career as a singer above the what the townspeople will think.
A young Senate investigator, Edward Roberts, begins digging into the racket empire of Mr. Antony. Then Mr. Antony investigates Roberts' background and discovers that at one time Roberts' mother accepted help from a crooked politician. In an attempt to deter the investigation, Antony approaches Roberts with blackmail in mind.
One of the greatest ladies of theater, Harriet Brand, decides to make a comeback but is hindered by her past indiscretions.
A murder takes place in the public relations department of a motion picture company.
A businessman fed up with his invalid wife's tyrannical behavior finds a solution during a business trip. A man that looks exactly like him might be able to provide the alibi he needs to eliminate his wife.
A young man looking for work on a family farm indicates that he is deaf and dumb but in fact suffers from a severe stuttering problem.
After years of hard work, Professor Theodore Koering, nuclear scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Reporters sent to interview him are surprised at his apparent lack of interest in the honor accorded him, and baffled by his refusal to cooperate for pictures and stories. Their first lead develops when Kering forbids them to interview the widow of his former assistant.
After years of hard work, Professor Theodore Koering, nuclear scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Reporters sent to interview him are surprised at his apparant lack of interest in the honor accorded him, and baffled by his refusal to cooperate for pictures and stories. Their first lead develops when Kering forbids them to interview the widow of his former assistant.
Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation is a little harder than simply plunking down cash. Along the way to her goal, she manages to befriend a count, unite young lovers, and dodge customs.
It is puzzling to the family and office friends of Letty Greene that she has little interest in men and apparently no concern over the prospect that she may never marry. But Letty has been seeing a co-worker, Will Robbins, who is unhappily married. She tries not to face the future of this romance.
A policeman apprehends the reckless driver of a vehicle when a little girl almost gets hit and finds himself being bribed by the driver, a wealthy playboy.
When their elder spinster sister Rosie becomes bedridden, the three McTaggart brothers, all bachelors, hire their 19-year-old niece Kathleen to help out with the household chores. All goes well until she falls in love and, much to the alarm of her uncles, contemplates marriage.
A GI kills a boy that he thought was stealing government property and is court martialed and acquitted of the crime. The boy's sister and uncle confront him and he seeks to make amends.
In an attempt to help his shy son Frank to become more popular at school, Harry Breen suggest to Frank that he do some writing. The plot backfires when the boy embarks on a crusade to remedy juvenile delinquency. His article, naming parents as the real delinquents, appears in the local newspaper and overnight Frank becomes a national celebrity.
An Air Force crew prepares for a rugged 2-week survival course and everyone is worried.
A widower's dreams of escaping his job and family with a trip to the South Seas fall through when his spoiled irresponsible son asks him for a large sum of money.
Ben Royce prides himself on being a self-made man who has become the most powerful cattle baron in the West. He rules his family and his ranch with an iron hand, and there are many clashes between him and his foreman Jace Farrow. After a particularly bitter quarrel, Jace tells Royce that he is quitting to go into the cattle business on his own. Believing that Jace will fail on his own, Royce makes no attempt to stop him. As Jace prepares to leave, he asks Marcy Royce, Ben's daughter to go with him.
Buck Slater, youthful singing sensation, makes a return visit to his small home town in he south, accompanied by a woman magazine writer named Shirley. Shirley wants to write the real Story of Buck as he was before he left for the big-time. Buck has a score to settle with the town and when a youngster is accused of a series of thefts, Buck offers to take the boy under his wing.
Leo is a hard-working young man who owns and operates a wholesale produce firm, and is very much in love with his pretty young wife Annabelle. He doesn't know that Annabelle has been seeing a clerk who works for him. The clerk, Frankie, plans to murder Leo and implicate Annabelle.
A medical researcher feels that he has made an important discovery.
Tension inside the television director's control booth mounts to a breaking point when the television drama spills over into life and death reality.
An insurance company tries to marry off a girl within a week. Failure means the girl gets one million dollars.
A country boy is taken in by a scheming rich girl who is spending her vacation in the country.
Little Juan and his parents have moved to a new town to escape the prejudice they encountered as Mexicans. But things go badly in the new town too, reaching a climax when Juan and two teenage friends of his disappear while visiting a canyon outside town.
A young British businessman, attempting to smuggle a watch he purchased as a gift for his wife into the country, is arrested by customs officials and sent to prison.
You wouldn't suspect that Bellingham is anything but what he appears to be, a conscientious and sensitive master in an English boys' school. Actually he also leads another life entirely. He hates evil political leaders, and belongs to a group determined to eliminate them by assassination.
A convicted murderer vows that he will break out of prison and revenge himself on the people responsible for his capture. When he does escape, the police post a cordon around the home of his former girlfriend, who has married. But, despite their precautions, the girl is killed. A reporter learns that the dead girl's husband and the police chief have also been threatened.
The son of a prominent businessman is arrested for stealing a car. His father goes to great lengths to keep the matter private and out of the headlines. A reporter snaps their photo as they're leaving the courthouse, resulting in unwanted publicity. This is when the father starts getting blackmail threats.
After 20 years in exile in the United States, a royal family has hope that the monarchy will be able to return to power. But intrigue arises as someone tries to kill the queen. The prime suspect is her son, Prince Anthony, who was told that he must give up his wife if he returns to the throne.
